Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: supernatural, amp, mystery, tales, churchyard, wordsworth, house
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1840225742
ISBN-13: 9781840225747

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period s leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M.R. James as standing absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories. The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: familiar
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $20.58
ISBN-10: 141916192X
ISBN-13: 9781419161926

I say I know this; I could prove it to your own conviction." He paused for a minute, and then added, "And as to accosting it, I dare not, I could not; when I see it I am powerless; I stand in the gaze of death, in the triumphant presence of infernal power and malignity. My strength, and faculties, and memory, all forsake me. O God, I fear, sir, you know not what you speak of. Mercy, mercy; heaven have pity on me!"

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Kosta Press
Keywords: novel, willing
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1409790711
ISBN-13: 9781409790716

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: checkmate
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2009-05-20
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 1110238088
ISBN-13: 9781110238088

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: darkly, glass
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1605203408
ISBN-13: 9781605203409

The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814–1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosphere tinged by the supernatural and bolstered by hints of ambiguous magic. First published in 1872, In a Glass Darkly is a collection of Le Fanu’s short fiction, and includes: • “Green Tea” • “The Familiar�

Authors:J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Victor Sage,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, silas, uncle
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0140437460
ISBN-13: 9780140437461

In Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu’s most celebrated novel, Maud Ruthyn, the young, naïve heroine, is plagued by Madame de la Rougierre from the moment the enigmatic older woman is hired as her governess. A liar, bully, and spy, when Madame leaves the house, she takes her dark secret with her. But when Maud is orphaned, she is sent to live with her Uncle Silas, her father’s mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. And, once again, she encounters Madame, whose sinister role in Maud’s destiny becomes all too clear.With its subversion of reality and ill

Authors:Sheridan Le Fanu,  Robert Tracy,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, darkly, glass
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0199537984
ISBN-13: 9780199537983

This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a ’metaphysical’ doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader’s doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience. This new annotated edition includes an introduction, notes on the text, and explanatory not